Athenian Gods

I just love the Olympics. I'm watching the rather scattered coverage on NBC right now, although I knew the results of the men's road race hours ago thanks to cyclingnews.com. They probably won't show anything of the Road Race until late at night and I'll probably miss it. Having been a swimmer in a previous life, I find that watching those events causes my heart rate to rise, particularly near the finish. I just love it. Same thing with watching cycling. I must say that even though I wasn't really expecting a gold medal from our cycling team, I was still disappointed with the results. The men's gymnastics is on now. I did a little bit of gymnastics (i.e gymnastics 101) my freshman year in college, but I cannot relate at all to those guys with arms that are bigger than my thighs. Some of the things they do just seem completely outside the realm of possibility for mere mortals. At any rate, I have got to get my skinny butt into the pool this Fall and Winter and try to get some muscle tone back above the waist. Maybe I'll sign up for Spinning classes again this Winter and take a swim after the sessions.

Well, I'm going to do the 40k TT tomorrow morning. I'll be picking Bob up real early since registration opens at 6:30 a.m. for an 8:00 start. It's hard to get excited about time trials when you're competing against guys with special time-trial bikes and $2,000 wheels and aero helmets and all. I usually just take my water bottle cages off (strictly a psychological gesture), clamp on a set of aero-bars, tuck in my jersey and go for it. Hopefully I won't embarass myself too much. I rode the Giro ride this morning, taking it as easy as I could and staying away from the front. Taking a day off is almost never good for me.

I'm using my old back-up laptop right now - a partially broken one that I resurrected from work - because our main laptop, which is Candy's work laptop, seems to have had some sort of problem with its transformer/power supply which basically stopped supplying power. Probably the wire between the transformer and the connector has broken somewhere. I had a universal one at home, so I set it for the right voltage etc., and got it working, but it looks like the power problem caused some hard disk damage. I just got it to finish a 2-hour long surface scan where it found the bad cluster and presumably repaired it, so I'll have to check it out now and see if it's working OK. Otherwise I'll have to run over to work and pull that old Sony Vaio out of my file cabinet to take to the site visit in Florida tomorrow because I will absolutely need to be working some on Monday to line up a bunch of meetings for Thursday and Friday, plus I'll want to get the TT results posted to the NOBC website.